A Question for the American People
Dec. 22nd, 2003 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
richardf8Regarding this article on American opposition to gay marriage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/national/21GAY.html?hp
OK, my fellow Americans. Are you SO willing to keep people you've never heard of from getting married that you will vote for a president who:
1) Took office by appointment because he couldn't get votes,
2) Turned a significant budget surplus into the hugest deficit this country has ever seen,
3) Established a precedent for pre-emptive war that has made it permissible for any country to attack another at whim,
4) Established new environmental regulations that guarantee your children the god given American right to suffer from asthma and mercury poisoning,
5) Had all the information in hand to bring 9/11 to a halt before it came to very much, but passive-aggressively allowed it to happen so that he could use it as political capital to
6) Spy on your purchasing habits, unlawfully detain you indefinitely without due process, and declare peace protestors enemy combatants,
7) Oversaw the hugest hemorrhaging of jobs from the economy, which will not be recovered even at current levels of growth,
8) Wants to hand the Social Security benefits you've paid all of your working life over to the care of the Enrons and Worldcoms of the world,
9) Pushed a medicare reform bill that funnels your tax dollars directly into the pockes of the Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance industries?
Do you hate gays SO much that you are willing to DESTROY AMERICA just to prevent two people you've never met from getting married?
George W. Bush thinks you do. In fact, he's counting on it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/national/21GAY.html?hp
OK, my fellow Americans. Are you SO willing to keep people you've never heard of from getting married that you will vote for a president who:
1) Took office by appointment because he couldn't get votes,
2) Turned a significant budget surplus into the hugest deficit this country has ever seen,
3) Established a precedent for pre-emptive war that has made it permissible for any country to attack another at whim,
4) Established new environmental regulations that guarantee your children the god given American right to suffer from asthma and mercury poisoning,
5) Had all the information in hand to bring 9/11 to a halt before it came to very much, but passive-aggressively allowed it to happen so that he could use it as political capital to
6) Spy on your purchasing habits, unlawfully detain you indefinitely without due process, and declare peace protestors enemy combatants,
7) Oversaw the hugest hemorrhaging of jobs from the economy, which will not be recovered even at current levels of growth,
8) Wants to hand the Social Security benefits you've paid all of your working life over to the care of the Enrons and Worldcoms of the world,
9) Pushed a medicare reform bill that funnels your tax dollars directly into the pockes of the Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance industries?
Do you hate gays SO much that you are willing to DESTROY AMERICA just to prevent two people you've never met from getting married?
George W. Bush thinks you do. In fact, he's counting on it.
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Date: 2003-12-21 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-22 07:20 pm (UTC)...no Democratic Candidate, save Senator Lieberman, has offered any acceptable or sufficiently comprehensive policy on foreign affairs. And as Mr. Lieberman is not likely to get the nomination, I am, frankly speaking, rather worried about what candidate to support in the coming election. Make no mistake, I am a democrat by inclination. I hold in greatest contempt Mr. Bush for the counterproductive and damaging policies he has enacted on the domestic sphere, and find myself quite annoyed with his cavalier approach to diplomacy, but I am still waiting for a comprehensive foreign policy by the democratic candidates. Frankly speaking, I am not sure who I will end up supporting. Because while deficits and the like can be fixed in time, if Islamic extremism and terrorism is not stopped now and democratic institions instilled in the middle east, we face a grim future, and that is an issue I'd be willing to sacrifice all those other issues for. Hopefully, however, it won't come to that. I still have hope for a viable Democratic candidate. And I certainly don't wish to see Mr. Bush back in office if any alternative presents itself.
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Date: 2003-12-22 09:28 pm (UTC)This sentence of yours has one clause too many. The "if" and everything following it should be dropped.
1) Bush's foreign policy is not about instilling democracy in the middle east, but rather about instilling the same type of corporate oligarchy that he has been nudging the U.S. toward in the middle east. It is</> about the oil. For all the good reasons there were to remove Saddam, it was the oil and the opportunity to show up the old man that were the driving factors.
2) Do not imagine that Bush's policies are going to bring an end to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism. He is too oil driven to deal properly with his good friends, the Saudis. It is Saudi Arabia that gave us Osama Bin Laden (whom the US supported and trained during the Reagan years, because he stood against Russia) and all but one of the 9/11 attackers. And yet we have been pussyfooting around them. If you were of age, I would offer some choice NC-17 metaphors for Bush's obsequy to the Saudi crown-prince, but since you are not, I will leave it to what I am sure is your sufficiently vivid imagination. Bush will end terrorism like Sharon ended the Intifada.
3) Given enough time, Bush WILL do damage that cannot be "fixed in time." He is very devoted to dismantling every structure that has protected our nation from abject wretchedness since the Great Depression. He is equally devoted to restoring a McCarthy era paranoia to the nation, and has technologies at his disposal that would have made old Joe McCarthy drool.
I trust that an adequate foreign policy will be formed by the right set of candidates. I'm not really interested in what's coming out of their mouths right now, when all they are doing is competing with each other. I will vote for Dean in the primary, and I will vote for whoever wins the democratic nomination. (Although I will feel dirty afterwards if it's Lieberman, Kerry, or Gephart).